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Poet JoAnn Anglin thinks so, which is why she is teaching men at Folsom Prison that fine art, under a grant from the Metropolitan Arts Commission.

At this well-attended HAGSA meeting, Ms. Anglin related her practice of teaching poem creation not only to inmates but also to students in schools, children at the Crocker Art Museum, patients at Shriner's Hospital, and interested people elsewhere.
An accomplished poet herself, she exudes enthusiasm for the form that suggests deep love.

Ms. Anglin noted that, although she was a very experienced writer (exhibit writer for state parks, public information officer for state agencies, a column for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission Newsletter, etc.), she did not begin her own writing until she was fifty.She gravitated to poetry after that.

She used her first reading, My Papa's Waltz, by Theodore Roethke, to illustrate how different people interpret a poem differently.
And she pointed out that this is just fine; poems are like that.

Ms. Anglin then read several of her own works, including Change, Currency, and Jesus Goes Swimming, to very enthusiastic audience response.

THREE POEMS BY JoAnn AnglinJoAnn Anglin of Sacramento writes poems about nature, human and otherwise.

member of Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun), The Third
Sunday Poets, the California Writers Club, Sacramento Chapter, and the
Sacramento Poetry Center, she is also a life member of the Friends of the
Library.
Her poems have been in Poetry Now, the Suttertown News, the
Anthology of the Third Sunday Poets, and the Anthology of 100 Poems About
Sacramento.
She writes articles, too, that have been published in the
Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Magazine, and the Arts Reporters.
She is the

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JoAnn has read at several
venues in the Sacramento Area and is included in the upcoming anthology,
Vozes del Nuevo Sol.
Currency

JoAnn Anglin - joannpen@comcast.net - has been published mostly in Sacramento-area publications, including The Sacramento Anthology: 100 Poems and, of course, Rattlesnake Review.
She was an early member of Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol [Writers of the New Sun], and is included in their anthology, Voices of the New Sun/Voces del Nuevo Sol . Her poems are included on the web site: www.escritoresdelnuevosol.comShe has been a featured poet at Northern California venues and a poet-teacher in the public schools and at Shriners Children's Hospital.

JoAnn Anglin of Sacramento writes poems about nature, human and otherwise.A member of Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol (Writers of the New Sun), The Third Sunday Poets, the California Writers Club, Sacramento Chapter, and the Sacramento Poetry Center, she is also a life member of the Friends of the Library.Her poems have been in Poetry Now, the Suttertown News, the Anthology of the Third Sunday Poets, and the Anthology of 100 Poems About Sacramento.She writes articles, too, that have been published in the Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Magazine, and the Arts Reporters.She is the

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JoAnn has read at several venues in the Sacramento Area and is included in the upcoming anthology, Vozes del Nuevo Sol.